Regular full or part-time employees within Georgia Power.

Employees are encouraged to use their understanding of the business to craft ideas for entries as long as idea development does not adversely affect job performance. However, time spent working on submissions outside of normal work hours will not be treated as hours worked.

No.

Employees may choose to notify their manager if they wish. If normal job activities will be affected by participation, then notification of management is required.

While managers are encouraged to support employees wanting to submit entries, submitting entries in iLab is voluntary and is not a requirement of an employee’s job.

Once submitted, entries become the intellectual property of Georgia Power and cannot be withdrawn.

Outside resources utilized in the concept development could create an intellectual property liability for the company. Entrants will be required to confirm that Georgia Power is the “owner” of the original idea and affirm they are complying with all applicable company policies.

Yes, we encourage teams to submit ideas as well.

Please e-mail ilab@southernco.com for any issues accessing the system.

Incentives for the Money Makers and Money Savers platforms are as follows:

Money Makers

• $500: Ideas recommended after the Subject Matter Expert review
• $1,500: Full business case developed and presented to management
• $3,000: Approved business case for implementation

Money Savers

• $5,000: Ideas that are implemented to reduce costs

Note:

• Only Georgia Power employees are eligible
• Incentives will be grossed up for taxes
• Incentives are subject to change at anytime

Yes. After an idea has been published on the iLab site, the idea owner can add team members. Employees can also ask to join an idea team but the idea owner must approve the team member in order to be added. All of this can be accomplished automatically within iLab.

Teams can consist of as many people as needed to develop the entry but any potential incentives will be capped on a per-team basis and will be distributed equally among team members.

Teams can only be assembled of regular full or part-time employees within Georgia Power.

Employees are allowed to be on multiple teams; however, keep in mind that participation cannot interfere with existing job responsibilities.

No. Participation in iLab as a team member is completely voluntary.

Choose the iLab platform your idea is applicable to (Money Makers, Money Savers, or Problem Solvers) and select post idea.

Once an entry is submitted, other employees at Georgia Power are able to review submissions, rate the idea and comment on the idea.

Rating is based on the idea feasibility.

Yes, if preferred although we do not encourage this in the spirit of collaboration and transparency. Click on your name at the top for your user profile settings.

No. Commenting on an idea does not establish membership on the team. The idea submitter determines who is on the team and invites members to serve on the team.

The selection process will be a combination of employee rating and panel review. Employee ratings and comments will begin the process by determining the ideas to move on to Evaluation Review. The evaluation review panel will then determine if a business case can be developed for ideas submitted in the Money Makers panel, and if a business transformation will be made in the Money Savers panel.

Ideas will be measured on ratings and comments and successful ideas will be graduated to evaluation.

No.

An iLab app is available in the Southern Company Application Catalog. Just look for the iLab logo and download it to your mobile phone.

Please contact ilab@southernco.com.

If multiple, similar iLab entries are submitted, the Market Strategy and Business Development Team will review ideas and determine if they can enhance one another. It may be suggested that the idea owners form a team. Employees submitting similar ideas may form teams to work together to expand upon those ideas.

All entrants will be notified as their entry moves through the process. In addition, those following an idea will also receive emails as ideas move ahead or are placed in the parking lot for future consideration. The default is for the Following box to be checked.

Ideas submitted through iLab become the company’s intellectual property.

They will be archived should an evaluation of the idea be warranted in the future.